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When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.

Hermann Hesse

I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.
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Dignity Disappointment Suffering Understand
To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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Achievement Impossible Inspirational
And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life.
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Evil Goal Goodness Life Togetherness Voice
Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.
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Hurt Love Resistance Suffering
It taught him how to listen — how to listen with a quiet heart and a waiting soul, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgment, without opinion.
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Desire Heart Judgement Listening Opinion Passion Wait
Life is waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much of it with our feet
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Inspirational Life Positive
Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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Art Grace World
I live in my dreams — that’s what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That’s the difference.
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Difference Dream Inspirational People
Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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Hold On Let Go Life Love Strength
When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.
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Communication Love Relationship
All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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Death Life Suffering
The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. The God’s name is Abraxas.
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Born Destroy Fight God Philosophy World
The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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Book Deep Ideas Taught Truth
Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.
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Deep Destroy Violence
Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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Beginning Mad Wisdom
The truth is lived, not taught.
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